The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-12-01
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

A kind of ant in Honduras will prey
upon houses, and when once started
will soon eat one down.
White pepper frequently has under
gone process of bleaching by chic
rine, which improves its color but de-
teriorates the quality.
Men desiring to be agreeable re-
move the odor of tobacco, which re-
mains after smoking, by solution OF
| thymol, used as mouth wash.
For the past twenty years or more
Mr.. Isaac Pitman, who is still a very
hard worker at the age of nearly IS
| years, has been strict vegetarian as
well as a temperance man.
A journal devoted to mazography. 4
science by which it is undertaken to
determine persons character by the
| size and shape of his nose, is soon to
| be published if its announcement from
Paris is credible.
The pulse of a young woman has
| been beating at the rate of 1876 per
| minute for two years past, in conse-
quence of a severe fright from plaster
| falling upon her from the ceiling and
| by which she was awakened.
A hospital for animals is projected
| in London with free dispensaries in
| the poor quarters, where besides treat
| ment for suffering animals lectures
can be given and pamphlets distrib-
uted for public instruction.
The most novel complaint of impure
milk reported is that of the London
boy boarded out under the poor-law
| regulation, who reported that the milk
| given him out of town, instead of be-
ing taken from clean tins, had been
| squeezed out of nasty cow, and he
''seed EN- adding it.
At the San Servola Insane ASYLUM
reached by gondola from Venice, very
| complete and scientific histories of
| cases are required and recorded. The
skull of every patient is accurately ex-
| amined and measured, no less than tif-
teen different measurements being
taken, according to the Italian craneo-
metrical system, and recorded in the
history.
| All the fine flowers seen at exhibit
tions are obtained by the plants being
"disbudded," as the method is techni-
cally known. The expert florists in
| struct amateurs who select special
kinds from the cut flower table that
they must not be disappointed at find
ing them half the size when they
flower unless they pinch off all the
buds but one on each shoot Just as
soon as buds can be seen.
Assistance containing celluloid may
be made from potatoes by peeling them,
and, after soaking them in water, i'm
ORIGINATING with eight parts of sui
phuric acid, then drying and pressing
between sheets of blotting paper. In
France pipes are made of this sub
stance scarcely distinguishable from
meerschaum- By subjecting the mass
to great pressure substance can be
made of it rivaling ivory in hardness.
Paint is found better than calcimine
or whitewash upon the walls of a
kitchen, since the steam from the
washing and cooking has less effect
upon it, and also because it can be
more readily cleaned. Before paint
ing the wall needs to be washed with
soapsuds, then covered with coat of
dissolved glue, which must be allowed
to dry thoroughly before the PAINT is
applied, the work being done " III and
quickly with a broad fiat brush.
From all accounts of the "silver
snake" of Honduras it most resembles
quicksilver in its movements. One
traveller tells of a specimen four inches
long and about the size of fence wire
which it was impossible to hold when
taken in the hands. The statement is
repeated, which is said to be made on
good authority, that fowl often eat
these snakes and shortly after can
have the pleasure of doing so again, as
in a few moments one will wiggle
through the almentary canal and can
perform the feat many times without
firing.